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is this book about childpornography? i havent read it yet should I?

Penguin used a Balthus painting as a Lolita cover? I see that image on two blogs, but I suspect it's fake.

It's about a pedophile man who eventually gets hiw own little girl and travel around the USA with her.

Please be trolling.

>go to imagefap.com
>search for lolita
>shit brix

reported for not abbreviating it

It is real, I've come across it in second hand book shops. It was part of the Pengun Twentieth Century Classics series, published in the 90s, I believe. Penguin has consistently used sexy covers for editions of Lolita (as they should, in my opinion), until recently, the most recent cover being shamefully politically correct crap which has nothing to do with novel.

Didn't Nabokov say that publishers shouldn't use suggestive/erotic imagery for the cover?

Well I gueas that means Nabokov wanted CENSORSHIP.

best covers are just

"Author - Title" on a blank canvas.

cover art is for mongrels, print size and binding and possibly footnotes are all that matter

actually the best cover is a naked lady on a dragon

>I've come across it in second hand book shops
:^)

is the book genuinely worth reading, or is it an edgelord meme?

I never read Lolita but I always figured she was just a girl between the ages of 16-17. Not an actual child.

Yes, it is worth reading. Great book involving an unreliable narrator. If you're ever in doubt, find it in a store or library and flip through it.

the age her in the film adaptations but in the book humbert's obsession is girls in very early puberty. the book wouldn't be so infamous if it was about banging a 16 year old, that's not even illegal in most places.

Well, I might have to look in to that now

Balthus is perfect for it because his paintings are about the tension between innocence and seduction/temptation.

Nabokov is a pleb

what was the last cover they used? wasnt that of girl on laying on some grass?

This is the current cover.

The fuck does a vase of flowers and a bowl of mangos have to do with the subject matter?

wasnt the late mrs humbert a painter of such scenes

if you look at the vase very closely you can see the reflection of a man fucking a child

Pastiche of banality is one of the major literary agendas of the book. Fruits and flowers are classic sexual symbols (even in the goddamn book!), while also seeming naively innocuous.

MUH MOTEL WALLPAPER

just got Ada or Ardor. any good?

Probably Nabby's best work, but you'll be needing this ada.auckland.ac.nz/

how fucked up is that website

Click on a chapter and then click on the links within the chapters to make the footnote annotations show up in the frame at the bottom of the page. The book text is inside that tiny frame because the line breaks are hard anyway. Shrink your browser window if the proportions bother you. This project has been around since people had 1024x768 screens and since frames were a typical part of web design, and as you can see they are still not done with the annotation. Goes to show that Ada is one of the richest books ever written.

You can also just read the copy of the book you have, and follow along in the annotation by line and page number. Maybe in 20 years when the project is finished someone will print it or work it up as an ebook.